1. Theology and aesthetics -- 2. God in thought and in imagination : representing the unimaginable -- 3. Divine revelation and human perception -- 4. God and the beautiful : beauty as a way to God -- 5. Art and the sacred -- 6. The beautiful and the good -- Appendix : original texts of poetry quoted in translation
Summary
In this book, Richard Viladesau construes Christian theology as a "theological aesthetics." He examines Christian revelation and its rational presuppositions in relationship to three interconnected meanings of the "aesthetic" in modern thought: human cognition as feeling and imagination; the realm of the beautiful; and the arts. In each area, examples from the arts are correlated with classical and contemporary theological themes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-286) and index
